Abstract
We are now proposing a new project which consists of a large air shower array (83, 000 m2) and a muon detector array (5, 400 m2) located at the altitude of 4, 740 m near La Paz in Bolivia to observe 100 TeV gamma rays in the southern sky. The ALPAQUITA array is a prototype air shower array which will be constructed at the ALPACA site. This array consists of 45 scintillation counters of 1 m2 in area each, and its effective area is approximately 8, 000 m2 (1/10 of ALPACA air shower array). In the present paper, we report on the current status and the performance of the ALPAQUITA array.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Proceedings of Science |
| State | Published - 2017 |
| Event | 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2017 - Bexco, Busan, Korea, Republic of Duration: 10 Jul 2017 → 20 Jul 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors would like to thank the staff of the Instituto de Investigaciones Físicas, Universi-dad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, for their support to our experiment at Mount Chacal-taya. This work is supported by the joint research program of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), The University of Tokyo. KK is supported by the Toray Science Foundation.
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